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A Completely New Way of Looking at Ego

Sub-levels part 2
(please first read part 1 here in the magazine, otherwise there will be
comprehension difficulties)

Who is at the internal
helm when we lapse into automatic reactions of dogmatism, anxiety and exhibitionism,
are unable to let go; when we are reacting from our heads instead of our hearts
etc.? Is it ego or our dark side? Where does the serious difference between the
two different approaches lie?

Hitherto in the esoteric
scene the ego was considered to be a fundamental evil and must therefore be
fought against on all counts. "Conquer your ego and you are free," was how the
slogan went. The ego is that which keeps us from enlightenment and which binds
us to the here and now. The ego is the source of egoistic and superficial
desires, excessive vanity; the more ego-driven a person is, the less he sees
the truth behind the veil. The ego manipulates the individual and holds him
prisoner. It also hinders him from having contact with the spiritual world and from
receiving impartial messages from there.

This was the case thus far
and for a long time it also seemed to me to be partially correct and logical.

The spiritually advanced
individuals already consider that the ego is indeed fundamentally good because
it makes our existence in this reality possible in the first place. Without the
‘I' and ego consciousness, there would be no human existence and no possibility
to discover oneself, according to the pattern of thinking.

However, in line with this
viewpoint, a distinction must be made between a crude ego and a refined
ego. The crude ego is the part of us
that loves to pass judgement. The crude ego devalues others and raises its own
value in the process. The crude ego loves to wallow in negativity and moaning.
"Only bad news is good news" is therewith a typical ego interest.

The refined ego, however,
is above such internal conditions. An individual who has refined his ego is the
master of his ego instead of being manipulated and governed by it and its attachment
to negativity (power, anxiety, vanity, wanting to be more important etc.).

Anyone who has refined his
ego has acted from the heart and from wholeness rather than being tempted to
stupidity by the crude ego.

This is possibly closer to
the truth. However, "Scandal Daniel" (a little joke, but he is currently
spreading a couple of revolutionary ideas about), with whom you are already
familiar from part 1 of this article, goes a significant step further.

He says, the part that has
a tendency to moan and complain, that finds negativity so attractive, that
likes to make itself look better by saying bad things about others, that is
unable to let go of earthly goods, etc. IS NOT THE EGO!

It is much more our dark
side that reacts in such a way. And our darkness is the part that we reject and
which becomes automatically stored in the sub-level, where its start a life of
its own (see part 1 to understand precisely what the sub-level is).

The more things that we
reject about ourselves, and about the world in general, the more we are
rejecting our own creations.

However, since I am part of
the creation, which has formed the world, there is nothing except me.

Everything that I reject is
therefore a part of myself, which I remove to the sub-level.

Each individual has a kind
of highest potential and an accompanying energy reserve. The more things,
feelings, characteristics, situations he rejects, the more parts of his energy
reserves get stuck in the sub-level.

And the sub-level is the
level upon which the game of being captive in this reality is played out; the
game of being victim, the game of moaning and rejection.

This means that an
individual, who rejects many things, who complains and moans about others, who
loves negative news, who lives in a great deal of anxiety and worry, sees
himself as a victim, etc. is not controlled by the ego, but rather by the
sub-level!!

This is an elementary and
important difference, why?

Keep cool, in the event
that you should become nervous. That too, like everything in the world, is a
pattern of thought and an explanatory model, a further attempt to package truth
and reality into words. However, words are actually a fundamentally much too
small packaging for the entirety of creation. Therefore, take things calmly,
let them sink in and decide what is right for you.

What difference does it
make whether moaning, complaining and co. are governed by the ego or by the
sub-level?

Remember the old religious
teachings, which said that man was born a sinner and could only get to heaven
by doing this and that – which was provided by the priest, who had a better
contact to above.

In accordance with these
teachings, from the moment of his birth, man needed help from outside and above
because he was not in the position to communicate directly with God on his own
in order to free himself from his inherent failings. This God had clearly made
an extremely botched job in the process of Creation, and mankind must now atone
for this. And, in addition to this, God hid himself from the people and only
granted the select few access to him.

The spiritual community is
now a long way from this old doctrine. Or this is what we all thought,
according to Daniel.

For, although we have come
to the conclusion that it is not only the chosen few and trained priests who
have a connection with God and the spiritual world, but that everyone can.

Everyone can and everyone
practises it and, those for whom it doesn't work can go to channellors,
clairvoyants and co. until they are able to do it better on their own.

This is in any case a step
forward because we have begun to dare ourselves to do something, which we
previously only thought some religious figures from the church were able to do.

However, that which was
previously considered to be original sin is now the evil ego, which is inherent
within us. Also in the spiritual scene, mankind is still an individual who has
been born with a failing (namely a crude ego), which he is usually not able to
deal with on his own and for which he needs the help of the spiritual world in
order to combat it.

Ego or original sin, the
principle remains the same, says Daniel. We are not good enough as we are and
must fight with ourselves.

And it is precisely in
these thoughts that the manipulation and disempowerment lies.

If the individual were
convinced that he is OK as he is, that he holds all of the power in his hands,
then he would be immune to any kind of manipulation.

According to Daniel, the
argument – that there is something about ego that isn't good for us – is a
manipulative argument, which disempowers us.

The reality is that the ego
should be our master. No other being in the cosmos knows more about us and our
healing than our own ego. In being taught to fear it, or to want to cut it off,
we are cutting off the power within us. Mankind is nothing other than the
extent of his ego.

Now, for a long time in the
esoteric scene, the train of thought was: disconnect the ego and talk with the
inner child. Daniel: "But the inner child is sad and doesn't say anything when
we fight the ego. For we are only fighting with ourselves. No wonder that the
inner child is sad. We think it is sad because something is wrong again and we
have to go into therapy. However, the truth is that we have only been
manipulated. The church has taught the
individual to fight against himself because he is a sinner. In the same way
that part of the spiritual scene again teaches that one must fight his ego,
which is actually the master and the source of wisdom within us.

However, this information
always comes from the sub-level, in other words from our removed dark sides
(refer to part 1 to see how it is reintegrated). Irrespective of whether in the
church or in spiritual circles, the sub-level is the one that lives from our
energy and tries to prevent us from reaching our full creative potential.

A creative individual
always becomes increasingly disentangled from the sub-level. It thereby doesn't
get any more energy. It thus does everything to manipulate the individual with
new weakening ideas, according to Daniel.

In this new pattern of
thinking, the ego doesn't prevent us from discovering the truth and from
getting in touch with the original creation, but rather is our best escort
towards it.

Neither is it the part of
us that hold us tight in the here and now with anxiety and moaning, but rather
these tendencies arise from our entanglement with the intermediate world. The
more we are involved in separation and rejection, the more entangled we are in
the sub-level and the more moaning and complaining there is.

The ego is the master, the
wisdom and the healer within us. It is our best advisor.

The more experience someone
has made, the greater his ego is. A big ego is thus something good and has
nothing to do with vanity. That would rather be the sign of a small ego, which
still lacks understanding and experience. The ego is also there so that we are
able to fully express ourselves as individuals.

The ego is also not
isolated, but rather is connected with all people and with the Earth as a
whole.

AND: According to Daniel,
we reach this only real and true ego….

a) …by
learning to feel good in our bodies and with our bodies. Why? Because
rejection, especially rejection of our own existence, immediately beams us onto
the sub-level.

b) …by
moving away from thinking from the head towards perceiving things with the
heart. For, contact to the real ego is found via the heart and via the
acceptance of our existence, via the reconciliation with who we are.

c) …by
relaxing and finding ourselves increasingly getting into the energy of
happiness. Happiness is the original creation, our own source from which our
ego emerges as our best advisor.
Unhappiness = being dissatisfied with our own existence = rejection =
sub-level.

Summary:

Acceptance, reconciliation,
living from the heart and in happiness – this is the key to our own source and
the centre of power and creative strength within us. And it is here that we
encounter ourselves and our ego, the master of this incarnation.

As long as we reject something
about ourselves (our own body, sin, evil ego) and fight against ourselves, we
relinquish our power and become weak.

For we need the so-called
spiritual world in order to save ourselves from ourselves. It must help us in
our fight against our ego, against ourselves.
However, the supposed helper is the charlatan. The sub-level has only
instilled in us the idea that the ego is to be fought against so that we remain
dependent upon it. The bad characteristics, which it has attached to the ego,
actually come from the sub-level.

When we search within
ourselves (reconciliation, heart, joy), we will find what we are looking for
and will reach our creative potential. For, the sub-level no longer has access
to us since we "save" ourselves and no longer need anyone else.

This seems to me to be a
theory worth considering.

There is already a
difference whether the ego is an escort to one's own source or the greatest
obstacle in reaching it.

Whereby, if this model
attracts you, I would like to ask you not to condemn everything else as being
wrong, bad, dangerous and whatever else. In part, there are only slight
changes. That a refined ego lives from the heart and cannot be manipulated is
not really so far from this version. At the end of the day these are just
words. What is important is which part of this reaches your heart and what
happens when it is there. In this respect, you can simply let this article sink
in and pass it on, if it makes sense for you to do so (but please include the
complete list of references, see below).

BEWARE OF THE CATCH:

If you should happen to
think: "Ah, so the ego is nice, but the dark side is evil. Therefore I am going
to fight against the dark side," then you may just as well continue to fight
against the ego. Since, at the bottom line, everything remains the same. It is
all about acceptance and the end of the fight against something. Think about
what you want to be in favour of and commit yourself to it. Fight for your
positive character development and remove the ground from beneath the dark side
by accepting it, loving it as it is and stop fighting against it!!!

Put
all of your powers into reconciling yourself with the differences!

Practical application:

Until now, when we have
caught ourselves standing in our own way, because we absolutely had to be right
instead of following the energy flow, for example, when we have been unable to
let go of something, when we automatically sounded off about things, when we
automatically join in to slander other people although we didn't even want to
any more, then we often thought: "That was the ego again. That had me totally
in its power as I reacted in such a way."

Ego is known as ‘I'. That
means that the fundamental idea is that your core is so designed to make
difficulties for yourself.

In all of these cases, why
not try thinking the following instead: "Aha, that was my dark side again. The
dark side had me completely in its power."

Do you notice the
difference? It is and remains you because no-one else is there anyway. However,
in one case, it is your ego and, therewith your ‘I', the core of your being in
this incarnation that is making difficulties for you.

And in the other case it is
your dark side that is the problem. The dark side, which you have rejected and
subconsciously moved to the sub-level. There it begins a life of its own and
has you fully in its power at moments such as these. The sub-level controls you
in such moments and whispers to you that it is your ‘I' that is currently
causing you damage.

However, it is not the ‘I'.
It is the rejected dark side, which has developed a life of its own. It is
still you yourself. To this end, it is right to feel responsibility for what
you do and also for your own dark side.

However, the thought: "My
ego is that which I must fight against and suppress and heal" weakens you.
Whilst the thought: "My ego is the healthy part within me, which supports
me" strengthens you. This thought also allows you to more easily be the master
of your dark side. For the ego helps you to reintegrate the dark side once
more so that it is unable to live a life of its own.

However, when you consider
the ego to bet he guilty part and fight against it, it is unable to help you to
reintegrate the dark side once more. The dark side has fooled you so that it is
able to continue to live its own life.

I consider this pattern of
thought to be very strong and empowering. I will immediately put it to use and
report further…

Note: I love both of these texts with
interviews with Daniel (this one and the one about the sub-levels).
Nevertheless, Daniel also has ideas that I am unable to relate to. In the same
way, I ask you not to simply just take on board anything, anything at all, that
I write anywhere. Get a feeling for what suits you and what is good for you.
All the best, Bärbel

Another note: You are also
permitted to copy and make further use of both of the texts on the sub-level
and the ego (after sending an email to: kalender@baerbelmohr.de), BUT ONLY
IN THEIR ENTIRETY including the list of references and the note! THANK YOU!